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DIALECTICAL LEAP II
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What I’m trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind.
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When it comes to the nitty-gritty, they won’t let the people have any power; they’ll give all the rights to perform and to dance for them, but no real power.
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In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers’ image of themselves as the father-figure.
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Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers, because the workers won’t approach them. But it’s difficult to know where to start; we’ve all got a finger in the dam. So the only thing is to talk to them directly, especially the young workers.
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We should be trying to reach the young workers because that’s when you’re most idealistic and have least fear.
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I’d like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.
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I think it wouldn’t take much to get the youth here really going. You’d have to give them free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It’s already happening, though people have got to get together more.
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And the women are very important too, we can’t have a revolution that doesn’t involve and liberate women. It’s so subtle the way you’re taught male superiority.
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After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It’s quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then re-form, that’s the dialectic, isn’t it — but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.
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It’s pretty basic when you’re brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.
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When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.
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John Lennon, quotes from: The Lost John Lennon Interview by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn, 1971
Credits:
Work/concept: Bert Theis
Soundtrack: Gak Sato
Photos: BLKNZM/Steve Piccolo (home of Lenin)